Bible: Revelation

Glossary

• Abaddon: Destruction
• Alpha and Omega: the beginning and the end; the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet
• another horse, bright red, its rider: war and destruction
• Babylon: here, Rome
• beast: the anti-Christ; also used to refer to the Roman emperor Nero
• black horse: famine
• bride: the Christian Church
• Euphrates: the river in Iraq that was the eastern border of the Roman Empire
• full of eyes: watchful
• Gog and Magog: a reference to the nation that will destroy Israel
• Hades: the underworld of classical mythology
• Harmagedon: generally spelled Armageddon, the hill of Megiddo, the site of several important battles in Israel’s history
• Judah … Reuben …: a listing of the twelve tribes of Israel